Pediatrics News

Toddlers diagnosed with autism by age 3 years were around 3 to 4 times more likely to screen positive at age 18 or 24 months on a parental questionnaire designed to identify a risk for autism, according to a recent study.

Experts published a swath of new research this year about the youth mental health crisis in the United States, which U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, has called an emergency.

Children and teens are using technology earlier and more often than they ever have, and research from 2024 documented the consequences of heavy screen use among youth.

LOS ANGELES — Treatment with cannabidiol in young people with tuberous sclerosis complex led to significant improvements in several cognitive, behavioral and executive domains, data from ongoing survey show.

Researchers made strides this year in the diagnosis and treatment of autism. They also learned more about potential factors that might increase the risk for autism.

In the United States, mass violence has slightly increased, accounting for 1% of homicides in 2023 vs. 0.2% from 2000 to 2016, according to a report by the Medical Director Institute of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing.

The American Psychological Association released its first ever set of recommendations regarding healthy video consumption by teenagers, who have greater access to a larger volume of video content than ever before, according to the report.

Hundreds of millions of psychiatric disorders in the United States have been linked to childhood exposure of car exhaust from leaded gasoline, according to a recent study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Young adolescents who used cannabis more frequently reportedpsychosis spectrum symptoms and greater distress from such symptoms, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.